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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Why even ask?',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/02/24.jpg" alt="Rain pouring off a corner of the roof" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="bicycle">
	<h2>Bicycle issues</h2>
	<p>
		My bike peddle fell off again.
		I guess no matter how far I tighten the bolt, it&apos;s going to slowly work its way off.
		I&apos;m not sure whether the bolt is bad or it&apos;s the peddle itself that&apos;s got the issue.
	</p>
	<p>
		I hadn&apos;t even considered asking for help, and figured I&apos;d be walking home.
		The head manager of the restaurant I happened to stop at for breakfast lent me their socket wrench, so I got the peddle back on and didn&apos;t have to walk after all.
		They just offered, without my even having considered they might have one on the premises to lend.
	</p>
	<p>
		On the way home though, the peddle came off once more.
		I imagine this is likely why the bike got left behind in the first place.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I hadn&apos;t thought about the fact that min-max scaling doesn&apos;t account for the mean.
			How could I have missed that?
			That&apos;s a pretty big weakness with that model.
			We can see where on the scale a value falls, but we don&apos;t see where that value falls in comparison to normalcy.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="snow">
	<h2>Snow</h2>
	<p>
		It snowed today, this time just before, during, and after my night shift.
		I&apos;m told it&apos;s going to snow for several days, too.
		Ugh.
		I hate snow.
		It&apos;s unpleasant to bike in.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="work">
	<h2>Work</h2>
	<p>
		The boss put me back on the drive-through window again.
		Honestly, that&apos;s their decision to make.
		I even told them that that while I&apos;m tired of it, I won&apos;t complain and I&apos;ll do what makes the machine keep running.
		However, I expect they&apos;re going to ask me again if I&apos;m tired of it.
		Even if they don&apos;t, what&apos;s the point of even asking me if my answer changes nothing?
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		Obviously, people claiming to be visited by angels and whatnot are either delusional or lying.
		I figured people claiming to be visited in the dream world were also lying.
		However, it occurred to me that these accounts may be made in good faith.
		Sometimes, when I&apos;ve got something on my mind, that thing will creep into my dreams.
		So put yourself in the shoes of someone that eats, sleeps, and breathes for their god.
		It seems likely that religion would end up in the dreams of the devout quite often.
		And even people that are only slightly religious might even have religious dreams occasionally when something&apos;s on their mind and they want that divine help.
	</p>
	<p>
		My <a href="/en/religion/scripture/Mormon.xhtml">analysis of the Book of Mormon</a> is getting too large to efficiently work with.
		I&apos;m scrolling way too much in my code editor, and I can&apos;t even find the sections I need to work with without invoking the search feature every time.
		It&apos;s a mess.
		For now, I&apos;m going to split the analysis into several files; one for each section.
		It&apos;ll still appear as one page online, and I&apos;ll combine the files when the analysis is complete, but for now, this should prevent me from reaching the point where I&apos;m spending more time trying to navigate the page&apos;s code than actually adding to the page.
	</p>
	<p>
		I decided to bring the Book of Mormon to work and read it on my break.
		I wrote down the chapter and verse numbers of anything that caught my attention, so I could reread and analyse them once I got home.
		However, I found the passages are all rearranged in the hard copy of the book, compared to the digital copy I&apos;m working with.
		Because of that, I can&apos;t really use the hard copy to speed the completion of my project.
	</p>
</section>
END
);
